When Inner Ear Studios in Arlington closed last October after more than 30 years at their South Oakland Street location, owner Don Zientara weighed his options, looking to potentially rent another ...

Henry Rollins, a friend of Minor Threat, during the band’s first recording session at Inner Ear Studio. (Courtesy Skip Groff) For all the punk-fueled emotion packed into music recorded at Inner Ear, ...

D.C., DC — It would be fair to call it D.C.’s version of Abbey Road. But after 31 years, a major launching pad for some of the D.C. area's best-known musical artists has closed its doors for good.

Many in the D.C.-area music scene let out a collective wail when news broke in 2021 that Inner Ear Studio, the Arlington recording studio that helped launch many of the region’s top punk, post-punk, ...

Anyone who thinks peer pressure only happens to teenagers has never been in a recording studio. On a Friday evening in early September, a couple of punks are pressuring Michael Reidy, former lead ...

Inner Ear Studios—the famed Arlington, Virginia studio that helped solidify the careers of Bad Brains, Fugazi, Minor Threat, and other Washington, D.C.–area bands—is shutting its doors in October, ...

Demolition of the old Inner Ear Studios in Green Valley is expected to start this month, after some delays. “This project was delayed after the discovery of unforeseen structural conditions with the ...

First things first: Don Zientara wants to make it clear that the building had always been lousy. The squat, one-story structure leased by Inner Ear Recording Studios — walls plastered in tour posters ...